Many doubts troubled him.
Next, in the order of events, came the decision by which the marriage contract between Dexter and his wife was annulled.

On the evening of the same day on which the court granted the petitioner's prayer, Hendrickson called upon Mrs.Denison.She saw the moment he came in that he was excited about something.
"Have you heard the news ?" he inquired.
"What news ?" Mrs.Denison looked at him curiously.
"Leon Dexter has obtained a divorce." "Has he ?" "Yes.

And so that long agony is over! She is free again." Hendrickson was not able to control the intense excitement he felt.
Mrs.Denison looked at him soberly and with glances of inquiry.
"You understand me, I suppose ?" "Perhaps I do, perhaps not," she answered.
"Mrs.Denison," said the young man, with increasing excitement, "I need scarcely say to you that my heart has never swerved from its first idolatry.

To love Jessie Loring was an instinct of my nature--therefore, to love her once was to love her forever.

You know how cruelly circumstances came with their impassable barriers.
They were only barriers, and destroyed nothing.